Laptop Correspondents

The MSM is doomed. It's the dawn of a new age of citizen journalism, where politicians are blogging and every blogger is a local correspondent. With a camera in every mobile phone, wireless internet and laptops, everything from Saddam Hussein's execution to Britney Spears' new boyfriend is being reported live by 'laptop correspondents'.

As of now, it goes straight to youtube, and spreads virally. There's not much pay involved. Just fame. But that's about to change. Where the audience goes, so do the ad dollars. And where the ad dollars go, the jobs follow. Just as blogging and google news pulled away ad dollars from print magazines, laptop journalism is peeling away jobs from MSM magazines to local writers.

Time, Inc. is about to cut a 150 jobs across it's array of publications. All these 150 jobs are about to land in the hands of local correspondents working from home with a laptop and a mobile camera. No office expenses, no heathcare, no retirement benefits. Only a fat check per story, pictures and videos blogged in.

My point with all this bloviating? Get up off your butt, get a mobile phone with a camera, if you don't have one already. Go wireless. And start writing and submitting stories, pictures and videos from in and around your neighbourhood to various print magazines. It's the in-thing. And you'll be the latest recruit to the army of laptop correspondents, working from home for Time, USA Today, US weekly and of course, your own tiny blog.

So just who is hiring laptop correspondents? Click here and here to find out more.